Channel 4 in the UK carried an investigative report from the British branch of Greenpeace based on a sting interview with Keith McCoy, a top lobbyist for ExxonMobil. McCoy spoke…
Like his onetime mentor John Prine, Todd Snider's songs, built from simple chords and clever lyrics, fall into a category between folk and country that the label "Americana" doesn't quite…
This was the song of the summer 24 years ago, when it was inescapable on radio and MTV. Despite never being released as a single, it topped Billboard's airplay chart…
Mumford and Sons, the British band that soared to popularity a decade ago by dressing up like farmers and playing Americana, hit the news this week when their banjo player…
It's been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness,…
In honor of the Senate's infrastructure deal, which apparently will be confined to not much more than highways. This one pops up all the time on classic rock radio, and…
Enough Democrats in the Senate have sold out their party to come up with a skinny infrastructure bill that won't raise any taxes to fund $600 billion worth of repairs,…
Have you seen any stories about this invasive species of Asian "jumping" earthworms that's tearing up forest land in the Midwest? Check the link and prepared to be creeped out.…
The year: 1968. The place: San Francisco, home to the blues-rock hybrid that came to be known as psychedelic or acid rock. The band: Blue Cheer, named for one of…
Has there ever been a summer better suited to nostalgia than this one? After the Year Without a Summer, people are going to appreciate every little pleasure a good bit…
Bipartisan Boy, in his secret identity as mild-mannered Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, has used his progressivism-fighting powers to issue a press release, co-signed by nine other Democrats and 10 Republicans,…
How's this for postmodernism in practice: A punk-pop band popular in the '00s covers a hit by a '90s boy band, gets them to sing back-up on the single, then…
This one's for El Somnambulo, the biggest Boz Scaggs fan I know -- and not just of the "Silk Degrees" tunes that remain in classic-rock rotation today. This song led…